Recently, young Indigenous people from all over Australia gathered in Canberra for the National Indigenous Youth Parliament. We asked one of them, Audrey, to take us behind the scenes at this important event. Here's her report.

AUDREY INKAMALA: This is me. I'm Audrey, just over there on the right. Here I'm hanging out with my friends at school in Adelaide but that's not my home. My home is a fair way away from here. I'm from a little community called Engawala, a couple of hours north of Alice Springs. But in a couple of weeks I'm going to get the chance to represent the people of my home in Canberra. I get to meet up with 49 other indigenous kids from across Australia and together we get to form a parliament of our own.

We're waiting for our flight to Canberra and I'm excited about it

It didn't take long to realise Canberra was pretty different to home. First stop was Parliament House. We took some photos and posed for lots and lots. Then it was time to get down to business.

We were given a speech from this guy, Josh Freydenberg. He's a politician and works with the Prime Minister. He told us all kinds of things like how laws are made, and what it's like to be a politician.

JOSH FREYDENBERG, POLITICIAN: "Can I make an apology on behalf of our behaviour, we're a pretty rowdy bunch"

After that we went for a nice lunch where we could tell them a bit more about ourselves, where we come from and what issues our communities face.

Next stop was the big part of the event - making our very own parliament. We debated lots of topics like recognising Indigenous Australians as the first Australians in the constitution and at times it got pretty rowdy like the real parliament.

Then it was down to the scariest part of the trip - giving my own speech. I spoke about what itís like back home and some issues that are really important to me. I think everybody liked it and it was an amazing feeling getting to tell politicians what was important to me. In history there have only been 28 indigenous members of parliament and when you think about it, that's not many. So it was a great opportunity for us to learn more about Australian politics and that's really important because there are lots of issues Indigenous people face that still need to be fixed.

That's a big aim of the Youth Parliament but we're not just asked to talk about those issues. Here we're encouraged to take our messages back home to our communities too. It was such an amazing experience. We had heaps of fun and found out so much we didn't know. But most importantly we learnt we all have the power to make a difference.

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Lachie :

07 Sep 2016 1:58:15pm

Very inspirational and educational video, gives an outline of the life of someone who is aboriginal and is not living in a rural area, also shows how she still cares enough to still go and fight for her origins and their rights, she even gave a speech with a very good argument to her opinion.